Gallowgate Toon

Ayoze was quiet because we did little to support his game, as per. It's amazing our coach doesn't even consider this, he'd rather blather on about arbitrary shite.

What is this bollocks, man.

And to think he's been orchestrating our attacking play for 5 years We don't do anything, like, you're right. It's just direction-less rubbish. Nobody moves anywhere, no support for forwards, static midfield that magically disappear when we get countered, rarely get centre halves on the turn.

How are we still so naive when going forward?

Obviously fucking shit delivery, but look at the pitiful presence we had in the box there, man.

Same old shit, really. Barely any link up, no attacking coordination, massive holes in midfield and terrible defending.

If anyone can do it, Emre Can.

I think this is always going to be the case with our wide players, tbh, unless they're really good (not that we're not massively short of quality in that area). We saw it with Ayoze yesterday, he'd beat someone then have nobody within 15 yards of him to pass to. We have the age-old issue of barely anyone in the box arriving with any pace as well. There were times yesterday where our attacking 3 were going forward but the 3 midfielders were standing within 10 yards of each other around the centre circle. The result was wide players doubled up on with about one person to aim for in the box. We pretty much only see midfielders in the box when full backs are overlapping, which is often a pretty slow play with the opposition back and organised. Yesterday was better but it just, once again, shows how much of an utter shambles we are overall.

Carver will be delighted with that, the tit. Classic Pards move of keeping about 6 players back to their one when we attack. We give our attackers hardly any room to manoeuvre, Central midfielders stood together about 50 yards away from the action.

I thought he'd done this as a deflection thing, at first, but then I remembered just how thick he actually is.

Those quotes are abysmal. I'm sure Pardew said similar a while back too. Something like '4-3-3 or 4-4-2, it doesn't matter'.

Reckon they'll try Warburton next. And to think we could've had Garde in

How much does Ashley stand to lose if we go down?

Charnley was the finance department's tea-boy 5 years ago or so. Clearly never been anywhere near qualified for the role, the prick.

He's blatantly reading this

The board have sympathy for Carver? Bloody clueless, as we all already know.

Please tell me that wasn't an actual thing? Word for word.

'If I had 11 Jack Colbacks in my team, the fans would love it' :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Carver thinks this is the 90s and we've got good enough players to just say 'go on, lads, do what you want'. That's why John fucking Anderson does my head in, he just seems to think the answer is the players need to pull their socks up like football isn't a far more nuanced game than that now.

No quick, strong or tall set piece defenders, so we give them a fucking huge gap to aim into

EXPERIENCE. ENGLISH. PASHUN.

Jonas on the wing?

I wasn't disputing that, I was just showing that they don't class them as the same thing when presenting the info. Anyway, I don't dispute that Cabella's lack of acceleration is a hindrance, TCD. But he's not a truly direct wide player like Hatem was, he made his name in France as a playmaker that could move where he pleased, floating between the lines and linking with team mates. He wasn't really ever isolated or based his game largely around dribbling. I do think he can be a success in this league, but it would either take him playing in his preferred position or a much more astute (and brave) tactical set up to make it work.

That's not the point, though, Messi's strong on the ball. Cabella's extremely weak on it. He's still dispossessed more often than Cabella (1,9 per game). Granted he probably gets far more on the ball than Cabella. It's just that Cabella's stat doesn't sound that terrible to me. Because Messi loses it when he runs at people. Cabella loses it a lot when he is going nowhere but just gets muscled off the ball, which never happens Messi Obviously, comparing Messi to Cabella is completely futile, but Whoscored don't actually class being dispossessed as a failed dribble. In their terms - 'Dispossessed: Player is dispossessed on the ball by an opponent – no dribble involved'. They use a failed dribble as a separate statistic. In Messi's case (La Liga, not other comps), he attempts 8.5 dribbles a game on average and is successful with 4.6 of them. He's dispossessed 1.9 times per match and has 1.2 unsuccessful touches.

Surely this would be included in the 'dispossessed' stat? His dispossession for the season has been 1.7 times per game on average, which really isn't bad at all.